Ontology made easy /
This volume aims to develop the easy approach to ontology, showing how it leads to both a first-order simple realism about the disputed entities and a form of metaontological deflationism that takes ontological disputes themselves to be misguided, since existence questions may be answered by straigh...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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Jadual Kandungan:
- Introduction: The forgotten easy approach
- Whatever happened to Carnapian deflationism?
- The unbearable lightness of existence
- Easy ontology and its consequences
- Other ways of being suspicious
- Fictionalism versus deflationism
- Do easy arguments give us problematic ontological commitments?
- Do doubts about conceptual truths undermine easy arguments?
- Are easy arguments threatened by the bad company objection?
- Do easy arguments fail to answer ontological questions?
- Can hard ontological questions be revived in ontologese?
- Conclusion: The importance of not being earnest.